Book-holding device.



V. L. STOLZE;

BOOK HOLDING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR-8.19M.

134 918 Patented Oct. 23, 191

Wotan" Stoke VICTOR L; STOLZE, F WAUSAU, WISCONSIN;

BOOK-HOLDING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented (Oct. 23, 1917.

Application filed March 8, 1917. Serial No. 153,315.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VICTOR L. S'ronzn, a citizen of the United States, residing at /Vausau, in the county of Marathon and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Book- Holding Devices; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art towhich it appertains to make and use the same.

his invention relates to a book-holding device and is designed for use by bookbinders and blank book manufacturers.

Grdinarily in attaching the material with which the book cover is covered, itis necessary for the workman to hold the book with one hand and turn in and attach the marginal edges of the material to onehalf of the cover with the other hand, which is very tedious and consumes a lot of time and labor, and it is to overcome this disadvantage that applicant has produced the present invention.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which will hold a book, especially a blank book, in an upright position, so that the workman may have the free use of both of his hands in attaching the material to the cover of the book, it being understood of course that the material may be of leather, canvas, cloth or any other desired material.

Another object of the invention is to provide the device with a plurality of adjustments whereby it may be readily and quickly adjusted to suit the convenience of the workman.

A further object of the invention is to rotatably mount the book-holding means from a suitable support, whereby the book may be readily and quickly rotated to allow the workman to attach the material to the other half of the cover.

With these and other objects in view as will appear as the description proceeds. the invention comprises various novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be more fully described hereinafter and set forth with particularity in the appended claims.

Referring to the drawings,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my novel construction of book-holding device, parts thereof being broken away, and

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Similar characters of reference are used to denote like parts throu hout the accompanying drawings and the following description.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the reference numeral lindicates an upright tubular base which is provided with a base flange 2 adapted to be secured to a table or other suitable support?) by screws or other fastening devices 4. The upper I being provided with a reinforcing: sleeve 10 through which is threaded a set-screw 11 designed to engage a telescopically mounted arm 12. In order to prevent the arm 12 from being entirely removed from the extension 8, a pin 13 is passed through the inner end of the arm 12 and is designed to engage against the inner circumferential wall of the sleeve 10 when the arm is moved outwardly the limit of its movement.

The outer end of the arm 12 is provided with a cap 14 through which is vertically adjustable a supporting rod 15, this rod being held in any adjusted position through the medium of a set screw 16 extending through the cap.

The lower end of the supporting rod 15 is headed as at 24, and the head is swiveled in the top of an elongated head member 17 which is provided throughout its length with a substantially square opening 18 with which communicates a slot 19 formed in the bottom wall of the head member. A pair of clamping jaws 20 have their heads 21 slidably mounted within the opening 18 of the head member, these heads 21 of the jaws being threadedly mounted on an adjusting rod 22 that is provided with right and left hand threads, whereby when the rod is ro tated through the medium of the thumb disks 23 attached to its opposite ends, the jaws will be caused to move to or from each other as desired.

From the foregoing description and by reference to Fig. 1, it Will be apparent that the leaves of a book may be clamped be tween the jaws so as to l'nai'ntainthem' in an upright position, Whereby the Workman may have free use of both of his hands to turn in the material on the cover in a quick and ready manner. it will also be apparent that by rotatably mounting the head member 17 that the Workman can have onehalf of the cover in front of him to more conveniently turn in the material thereon, after which he can freely rotate the head and book clamped thereto until the other half of the cover is in front of him or in position to be Worked on.

What I claim'to be new is l. A book holding device comprising a rotatably and vertically adjustable standard, a horizontal extension carried by said standard, a vertical supporting rod adjustably connected to said horizontal extension, and adjustable book holding means rotatably attached to said vertical supportingrod.

2. A book holding device comprising a standard mounted upon a support a horizontal extension carried by the standard, means for lengthening said extension, a vertical supporting rod adjustably connected to said extension, and book-holding means rotatably mounted upon said supporting rod.

Copies of this patent maybe obtained for five cents 3. A book holding device comprising a base member, a standard ad ustably mounted thereln, a horlzontal extenslon comprlsing a tubular body carried by the upper end of the standard; With an arm telescopically mounted therein, means for adjusting the arm in the tubular body, a vertical supporting rod adjustably connected to the arm, and bool'c-holdingmeans rotatably connected to the supporting rod.

4. In a book holding device, the combination with a support, of book-holding means comprising a hollow head member rotatably carried thereby and centrally slotted longitudinally throughout its lengtln a rod having right and left screw threads; rotatably mounted in the head and projecting from the ends t ncreoflrlisks secured on the projectmg ends of the screw-threaded rod and bearing against the ends of the head, and a pair of jaws threaded on the respective threads of therod \vithln the head andproecting through the longitudinal slot.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

VICTOR L. STOLZE.

Witnesses GEORGE A. RUNKEL, OLINDA ADAMS.

each, by addressing the Commissioner of'fatents,

Washington, D. 0. 

